Staley informs me that this is still the case, just as in New Zealand. This has been attributed to the neglect of the children by the women, but it is probably in large part due to innate weakness of constitution in the children, in relation to the lessened fertility of their parents. There is, moreover, a further resemblance to the case of New Zealand, in the fact that there is a large excess of male over female births: the census of 1872 gives 31,650, males to 25,247 females of all ages, that

which period female infanticide had only lately ceased, the non-adult males in one district were 281, and the non-adult females only 194, that is in the ratio of 144 8 males to 100 females. In the Sandwich Islands, the males exceed the females in number. Infanticide was formerly practised there to a frightful extent, but was by no means confined to female infants, as is shewn by Mr. Ellis,96 and as I have been informed by Bishop Staley, and the Rev. Mr. Coan. Nevertheless, another apparently

; bellowing of the, 526; crest of the, 531. -beetle, numerical proportion of sexes of, 253; large size of male, 278; weapons of the male, 299. Stainton, H. T., on the numerical proportion of the sexes in the smaller moths, 251; habits of Elachista rufocinerea, 252; on the coloration of moths, 315; on the rejection of Spilosoma menthastri, by turkeys, 316; on the sexes of Agrotis exclamationis, 316. Staley, Bishop, mortality of infant Maories, 187. Stallion, mane of the, 521. Stallions, two

Staley informs me that this is still the case, just as in New Zealand. This has been attributed to the neglect of the children by the women, but it is probably in large part due to innate weakness of constitution in the children, in relation to the lessened fertility of their parents. There is, moreover, a further resemblance to the case of New Zealand, in the fact that there is a large excess of male over female births: the census of 1872 gives 31,650 males to 25,247 females of all ages, that

which period female infanticide had only lately ceased, the non-adult males in one district were 281, and the non-adult females only 194, that is in the ratio of 144.8 males to 100 females. In the Sandwich Islands, the males exceed the females in number. Infanticide was formerly practised there to a frightful extent, but was by no means confined to female infants, as is shewn by Mr. Ellis,96 and as I have been informed by Bishop Staley and the Rev. Mr. Coan. Nevertheless, another apparently

; horns of the, with numerous branches, 510; bellowing of the, 526; crest of the, 531. —-beetle, numerical proportion of sexes of, 253; large size of male, 278; weapons of the male, 299. Stainton, H. T., on the numerical proportion of the sexes in the smaller moths, 251; habits of Elachista rufocinerea, 252; on the coloration of moths, 315; on the rejection of Spilosoma menthastri, by turkeys, 316; on the sexes of Agrotis exclamationis, 316. Staley, Bishop, mortality of infant Maories, 187. Stallion

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